# BizQuest Listing Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes business-for-sale listings from BizQuest by category, state, and city, capturing asking prices, locations, descriptions, listing URLs, images, and broker contacts, with optional enrichment for financials, inventory, FF\&E, employees, year established, and full summaries.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $9.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## BizQuest Listing Scraper

Collects businesses-for-sale listings from BizQuest and returns one flat record per listing — title, asking price, location, description, listing URL and broker contact. Search by business category, state and city; optionally enrich each listing with its own page's financial details (cash flow, gross income, year established, full summary).

### Input

| Field | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `category` | *(empty)* | Business category, e.g. `restaurants`, `auto & automotive`, `internet related`. Empty = all categories. |
| `state` | *(empty)* | US state, full name or two-letter code (`California` / `CA`). Empty = all of the US. |
| `city` | *(empty)* | Optional city, used together with `state` (e.g. `Los Angeles` + `CA`). |
| `limit` | `50` | Maximum listings to return (1–1000). |
| `include_details` | `false` | Also visit each listing page to add cash flow, gross income, FF\&E, year established, employees, county and the full summary. Slower. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional | Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results. |

### Output

Each result is one business-for-sale listing (detail fields such as `gross_income`, `summary` and `year_established` appear when `include_details` is on and the seller disclosed them):

```json
{
    "listing_id": 2544163,
    "title": "Established Gourmet Pizzeria / Turnkey Opportunity",
    "asking_price": 250000,
    "cash_flow": null,
    "gross_revenue": 660000,
    "ebitda": null,
    "location": "Riverside County, CA",
    "city": "Riverside County",
    "state": "CA",
    "description": "Turnkey Established Pizzeria Priced to Sell",
    "listing_url": "https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/established-gourmet-pizzeria-turnkey-opportunity/BW2544163/",
    "image_url": "https://images.bizquest.com/shared/listings/254/2544163/64652aa9-faf9-4df1-8222-39f68dc7cf1a-W336.webp",
    "broker_name": "Ryan J. Roques",
    "broker_company": "First Choice Business Brokers - Corona/Ontario Office",
    "broker_phone": "(951) 776-5050",
    "hot_property": false,
    "recently_added": true,
    "real_estate_included": false,
    "gross_income": 660000,
    "ffe": 80000,
    "inventory": 600,
    "year_established": 2015,
    "home_based": false,
    "relocatable": false,
    "county": "Riverside County",
    "summary": "Exceptional opportunity to acquire a well-established gourmet pizzeria...",
    "raw": { ... }
}
```

Money fields are `null` when the seller has not disclosed them.

### Notes

- Runs with empty input (returns the newest listings nationwide, all categories).
- Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results, especially with `include_details` on.
- Intended for research and personal use; please respect BizQuest's terms of service.

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Business category to search, e.g. 'restaurants', 'auto & automotive', 'internet related', 'construction'. Free-form — it is matched against BizQuest's own category list. Leave empty for all categories.

## `state` (type: `string`):

US state to search, as a full name or two-letter code (e.g. 'California' or 'CA'). Leave empty for all of the US.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Optional city to narrow the search (used together with State, e.g. 'Los Angeles' + 'CA'). Leave empty for the whole state.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to return. Search pages carry roughly 50 listings each.

## `include_details` (type: `boolean`):

Also visit each listing's own page to add cash flow, gross income, FF\&E, year established, employees, county and the full summary when the seller disclosed them. Slower — one extra request per listing.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings for the run. Enable a US-based proxy for the most reliable results, especially for sites that limit non-US or datacenter traffic. Optional — leave off to run directly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "restaurants",
  "state": "California",
  "city": "",
  "limit": 25,
  "include_details": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "category": "restaurants",
    "state": "California",
    "city": "",
    "limit": 25,
    "include_details": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "category": "restaurants",
    "state": "California",
    "city": "",
    "limit": 25,
    "include_details": True,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "restaurants",
  "state": "California",
  "city": "",
  "limit": 25,
  "include_details": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/bizquest-listing-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/aDbPMvIO0qhXb0YRZ/builds/dhKRhbbqXKz9iMa17/openapi.json